Films like Blue Exorcist: The Movie.

Blue Exorcist: The Movie (2012) reads as Neutral, breathless, measured animation / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Black as Night (2021) poster
1. Black as Night2021

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Trigun: Badlands Rumble (2010) poster
2. Trigun: Badlands Rumble2010

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Eragon (2006) (2006) poster
3. Eragon2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Crawlers (2020) poster
4. Crawlers2020

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hunter x Hunter: The Last Mission (2013) poster
5. Hunter x Hunter: The Last Mission2013

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) poster
6. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief2010

Keeps the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale (2017) poster
7. Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 1 (2022) poster
8. The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 12022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody (2006) poster
9. Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bleach the Movie: The DiamondDust Rebellion (2007) poster
10. Bleach the Movie: The DiamondDust Rebellion2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

City Under Siege (2010) poster
11. City Under Siege2010

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (2009) poster
12. Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead2009

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

These are Blue Exorcist: The Movie’s neighbours — where are yours?

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